International Cinephile Society Winners: A Separation, Malick
A Separation wins best picture, ensemble, original screenplay and film not in the English language, while The Tree of Life takes best director at the ICS Awards.
PICTURE
01. A Separation
02. The Tree of Life
03. Mysteries of Lisbon
04. Certified Copy
05. Weekend
06. Margaret
07. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
08. Drive
09. Meek’s Cutoff
10. Hugo
11. Melancholia
DIRECTOR
Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
runner-up: Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
01. A Separation
02. Mysteries of Lisbon
03. Certified Copy
04. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
05. The Skin I Live In
06. Poetry
07. House of Pleasures
08. Le Havre
09. Le Quattro Volte
10. Of Gods and Men
ACTOR
Tom Cullen – Weekend
runner-up: Peyman Moaadi – A Separation
ACTRESS
Anna Paquin – Margaret
runner-up: Juliette Binoche – Certified Copy
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Brad Pitt – The Tree of Life
runner-up: Shahab Hosseini – A Separation
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
J. Smith-Cameron – Margaret
runner-up: Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
runner-up: Weekend – Andrew Haigh
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Mysteries of Lisbon – Carlos Saboga and
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan
runner-up: The Skin I Live In – Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki
runner-up: Mysteries of Lisbon – André Szankowski
EDITING
The Tree of Life – Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, Mark Yoshikawa
runner-up: Drive – Matthew Newman
PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Mill and the Cross – Marcel Slawinski, Katarzyna Sobanska-Strzalkowska
runner-up: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Maria Djurkovic
ORIGINAL SCORE
Drive – Cliff Martinez
runners-up: Mysteries of Lisbon – Jorge Arriagada and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias
ENSEMBLE
A Separation
runner-up: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ANIMATED FILM
Rango
runner-up: Winnie the Pooh
DOCUMENTARY
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
runner-up: Nostalgia for the Light
BEST PICTURE NOT RELEASED IN 2011
• Alps
• Century of Birthing
• Declaration of War
• The Deep Blue Sea
• Elena
• Faust
• The Kid with a Bike
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
• This Is Not a Film
• The Turin Horse
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This is what the Oscars should look like.
Very impressive list of winners. Very happy for WEEKEND.
I still haven’t managed to catch Margaret. Wish they’d distribute it properly, as I’m intrigued by reports from those who have been lucky enough to see it.
Nostalgia for the Light – lovely film.
This is what the Oscars should look like.
My thoughts exactly.
You see this list of winners and runners-up and you realize the riches 2011 had.
The Tree of Life is so overrated. It is an art-house and I think it is not Oscar material.
The most overrated films of year are The Descendants and Midnight in Paris. Before these films there were dozens of this-type films and I can not understand why people like these.
Times are changing and tastes too……
These are decent choices, although I wish Shame had been mentioned, and I can’t get behind the love for The Skin I Live In, because I didn’t like it!
But yes, if the Oscars looked like this, I’d be so happy.
Wow, what a list…too bad Poetry can’t be in their top 10 picture…
makes me so happy this list:)
Now HERE is a group that should kick-off the awards season next year and give some truly great films the acclaim and head start they will deserve.
By far the best group of honorees for the 2011 year in film.
Hmm, I haven’t seen 6 of the top 11 listed. I know Meek’s Cutoff is streaming so I’ll have to check it out this weekend.
As for Melancholia, was anyone else completely turned off by how Dunst treated her horse? That seemed pretty gratuitous…
Mecidov: I wasn’t aware that “arthouse” and “not Oscar material” were negative things?
ICS are clearly not trying to be Oscar prognosticators and are more interested in recognizing what cinema has to offer around the world, not simply what Hollywood wants to spoofeed to philistines like you.
Take your mainstream ass to the IMDB forums, you’ll feel more at home with all the other lemmings who have no taste
This is seriously the BEST list of awards all season! Wish Sareh Bayat had won though and Michael Shannon
Great list of winners. I love it when the wealth is spread around for films that really need award recognition just to be distributed. I’m still waiting to RE-watch “Coriolanus” and “We Need to Talk About Kevin” which hasn’t been released yet locally where I live.
For what’s it worth, I think “The Tree of Life” is a masterpiece. It clearly deserves the Best Picture Oscar (although I’m sure it won’t win), as well as Malick for Director and Lubeski for Cinematography.
The fact that it was nominated in these 3 categories is a tribute to the respective branches and shows a lot of love for this film (which was denied at the BAFTAs a few weeks ago).
Thanks for posting. We are having a helluva storm here and, as I was reading this great list, the sun broke thru the clouds and I’m looking at a rainbow over my shoulder. Have to hang on to that thought this coming Sunday.
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Brad Pitt – The Tree of Life
I wish this was for an Oscar.
it’s surprising that Tinker tailor soldier spy didn’t make their top ten, given how many awards it won or was runner up for
Kind of off-topic but do you know if Natalie Portman, Colin Firth, Christian Bale and (ugh!) Melissa “[deleted]” Leo are confirmed as presenters on Sunday?
Nice that André Szankowski at least made runner-up in the Best Cinematography category. He really hasn’t received enough recognition for those masterful tracking shots in “Mysteries of Lisbon”.
MECIDOV:
Exactly! Tree of Life, The Descendants and Midnight in Paris are all wildly overrated. The Oscar nominations for Extremely Loud and War Horse are also jokes, both films are artless. The Help also has no place in a “Best Picture” line-up.
A Separation is richly deserving of Best Picture of 2011, a true masterpiece. I would have voted it Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress as well, and maybe Actor, though Michael Shannon was also amazing. In my opinion, Drive was the best English language film of the year, and it too was robbed. Like so many others, from City Lights and King Kong to Citizen Kane and Treasure of the Sierra Madre to The Searchers and Vertigo to Psycho and 2001: A Space Odyssey to MASH and Apocalypse Now to Raging Bull and Do the Right Thing to Breaking the Waves and LA Confidential to The Pianist and, most of all, on account of the blatant, unapologetic homophobia and cowardice, Brokeback Mountain. I doubt the Academy got it “right” even 20 times in its 84 years.
Can’t wait for Sunday night to finally see the Mysteries of Lisbon. And to those who care about truly good movies, check out the amazing The Human Condition on netflix, its finally getting play in America.
I wish this was the Oscar winners list.
Also, Uncle Boonmee will never go away, will it? Not that it’s a bad movie, but I feel like it’s been talked about and been released for at least two, maybe even three, years now.
MECIDOV:
I am so glad you mentioned “Drive” and Michael Shannon’s performance in “Take Shelter”. It’s a shame that they went unrecognized by AMPAS this year. Shannon’s breakdown at the Elks Club reminded me of Peter Finch’s amazing performance in “Network”. This guy is totally riveting on screen. And “Drive”, while I winced at all the violence, is really a beautiful love story underneath it all and so stylistic/artistic in its presentation. Best Cinematography / Best Score / Best Director / Best Editing . . . it should have been nominated in these categories.
I believe that when Sasha and Ryan posted our “Pick the Oscar Nominees” (before they were announced, of couse) that “Drive” was mentioned in many categories as a front runner. What the fuck happened?